March 2014 Update on Architecture of Youth Jobs Summits

First, World Bank's Jim Kim transcripts- these are as exciting as anything I can find on youth summits and urgent advice on how social movements can be sustained if we value youth economics - of course I welcome knowing alternate sources

The other is my own very rough view of architecture of Youth Summits -some of the colliding systems that need rearranging bottom up and openly if net generation is to be most productive, sustainable and collaborative time for youth all over the planet. Just a discussion document ( In many ways online versions of this document are easier to discuss than printed but great to know if parts of it make sense and other parts need more clarification!)

As just one contrasting example - see top21 people of 2014 youthare recommended to action learn with by friends of my family's work on moderating the entrepreneurial revolution curriculum started in The Economist in 1972

This is the wiki of the course (1st week of march 2014 corresponding to last week of first rendering of this course which had been billed as an opportunity to learn from the september 2013 social good summit new york)- would welcome doing a skype tour of it if anyone is concerned about where we can go next

Solar Energy

Denier

How to talk to an ostrich Know any folks who stick their heads in the sand about climate change or clean energy? How about your skeptical brother-in-law, or know-it-all aunt? Here’s how you could answer if they try to speak ostrich to you!

Disease and Global Health Care

Women, Education and Social Change

Room to Read For people interested in education and literacy in developing and impoverished countries, check out Room to Read. Room to Read is doing great work for underprivileged children around the world and has already, in just 14 years, helped 8 million children become literate, given scholarships to over 18,000 girls, built over 2,000 libraries, and created over 450 schools. What they have accomplished is amazing, but with our help, they can do even more. Check them out at www.roomtoread.org. These guys know how to change the world!

Malala Yousafzai address to UN Youth Assembly Education activist Malala Yousafzai marks her 16th birthday, on Friday, 12 July 2013 at the United Nations by giving her first high-level public appearance and statement on the importance of education. Additional updates in a blog post here and in a video here.

Toolkits and other resources

Changing Habbits a tool for calculating your carbon footprint, based on several aspects of your daily life (eating, electricity use, commuting, traveling, etcetera)

Course Forums, Student Ideas & Projects

I set up 3 separate links below to organize information in this course that can't be effectively maintained by the Course Forums. What is missing a well-organized class notes from the video lectures. Is there any notes taker willing to put out his/her work?

Events in cooperation with this course

After This Course

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listing more than a dozen moocs on sustainbility crisis starting up the year of 2014

This web is vaut le voyage for many topics - eg

As students of the Baltic Sea region, we are dedicated to reach the dreams of a common sustainable future. We are gravely concerned about the escalating conflict in Ukraine, which is a great threat to peace and prosperity in the region. The only viable way forward in an interconnected world is through unity.

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How to Change the World (Wesleyan University)How to Change the World has its origins in the Social Good Summit held in New York, which brought together some of the world's most creative entrepreneurs, writers, academics and political leaders to discuss ways innovative thinking and technology can address pressing global challenges. We will discover together what actions we can take to make a difference. The course starts on January 20, 2014 (6 weeks long; 3-5 hours/week). Click here for the detailed course description:https://www.coursera.org/course/changetheworld

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Dad (Norman Macrae) created the genre Entrepreneurial Revolution to debate how to make the net generation the most productive and collaborative . We had first participated in computer assisted learning experiments in 1972. Welcome to more than 40 years of linking pro-youth economics networks- debating can the internet be the smartest media our species has ever collaborated around?

1972: Norman Macrae starts up Entrepreneurial Revolution debates in The Economist. Will we the peoples be in time to change 20th C largest system designs and make 2010s worldwide youth's most productive time? or will we go global in a way that ends sustainability of ever more villages/communities? Drayton was inspired by this genre to coin social entrepreneur in 1978 ,,continue the futures debate here